Has_many :through, with condition

Rails
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I have this simple model with orders and products. Orders looks like
this:

class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :orders_products, :foreign_key => :order_id
has_many :products, :through => :orders_products
has_many :priority_products, :through => :orders_products, :source
=> :product, :conditions => { “orders_products.priority” => true }
end

The :condition on :priority_products is cause problems for me. It
worked fine in Rails 2.0.2, but breaks in Rails 2.1.1 when putting the
relation in a :include clause:

orders = Order.find(:all, :include => :priority_products)

This result in PostgreSQL saying: missing FROM-clause entry for table
“orders_products”

for this malformed query:

SELECT * FROM “products” WHERE (“products”.“id” IN (1,2,3) AND
(“orders_products”.“priority” = ‘t’))

Full working example: http://pastie.org/299592

Is this something that should work, or am I making some mistake?

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On Oct 24, 12:36 pm, Lars C. [email protected] wrote:

The :condition on :priority_products is cause problems for me. It
worked fine in Rails 2.0.2, but breaks in Rails 2.1.1 when putting the
relation in a :include clause:

orders = Order.find(:all, :include => :priority_products)

This is a problem with 2.1’s implementation of eager loading. You
should be able to force a fallback to the old code by adding something
like :conditions => “some trivial condition on the priority_products
or orders_products table”)

Fred

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orders = Order.find(:all, :include => :priority_products)

This is a problem with 2.1’s implementation of eager loading. You
should be able to force a fallback to the old code by adding something
like :conditions => “some trivial condition on the priority_products
or orders_products table”)

Thanks, this sovled the immediate problem. Will I need this workaround
with future version of Rails or is it something being looked at?

Rgds,
Lars

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On 27 Oct 2008, at 14:45, Lars C. wrote:

with future version of Rails or is it something being looked at?

I don’t think 2.2 will be any different. I did have plans to look at
it but got side tracked and didn’t get it finished.

Fred

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Frederick C. wrote:

I don’t think 2.2 will be any different. I did have plans to look at
it but got side tracked and didn’t get it finished.

Does anyone know if there are any plans to allow conditions to be
specified that are applied to the ON clause of a join ?

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On 28 Oct 2008, at 13:44, Andrew P. wrote:

Frederick C. wrote:

I don’t think 2.2 will be any different. I did have plans to look at
it but got side tracked and didn’t get it finished.

Does anyone know if there are any plans to allow conditions to be
specified that are applied to the ON clause of a join ?
you can do that anyway - :joins accepts arbitrary sql fragments.

Fred